Calls for increased budget

FINANCE minister, Mthuli Ncube, has been urged to increase the 2024 Health budget beyond the 15% proposed in the 2001 African Union declaration by member states.

African Union countries, including Zimbabwe, met in April 2001 in Abuja and pledged to allocate at least 15% of their annual national budgets to their health sectors.

The call to increase the health vote beyond 15% was made by the Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) in a report on Ncube’s upcoming budget saying this is necessary to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) which speaks to all people having access to quality primary health care services.

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